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MARITIME PROJECTS
Before we start let me first introduce myself my name is Piet Sinke, born
at December 9th 1958
My time at sea started in 1975 at an age of 16
when I joined my first ship the brandnew SMIT LONDON direct from the
yard on her maiden voyage
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I joinded the tug as a messboy
A job onboard which consisted out of keep the
vessel clean from 6 am to 8 pm, making the beds of the officers , helping the cook,
doing the tables at the meal times. Washing the dishes etc and before going go bed every night making
sure the vessel was clean ready for the next morning
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The XENY (former PRINS WILLEM II of the Oranje Lijn) which encountered a large fire and was abondoned by the crew and was floating in
the Atlantic for 22 days.
The TALAMBA (P&O) also encoutered a flooded
engineroom and was towed to a safe port for repairs
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In 1979 i was onboard the famous Dutch Salvage tug ZWARTE ZEE at Salvage
Station St.Johns (Antigua),ready for action
in the Atlantic and Caribbean when the loaded supertankers
AEGEAN CAPTAIN and ATLANTIC EMPRESS
collided off Trinidad, with a result of many of the crew dead and both tankers on
fire together with the SMIT PIONEER which mobilised from Curacao
and SMIT SALVOR mobilised from Jamaica
And the Bugsier salvage tug ATLANTIC which was mobilised with 22 knopen from Lisbon to the location and the
SMIT-LLOYD 114 both burning tankers were attacked the AEGEAN CAPTAIN
was fast under control but the ATLANTIC EMPRESS was a much
larger problem for the teams
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After many days 24/7 firefighting with water and foam (AFFF) we finaly did see results of our work in the meantime the tugs
ZWARTE ZEE and SMIT LLOYD 114 were towing the tanker more into the Atlantic avoiding grounding at Tobago and making sure during the towing that the seas kept on
“rolling over” the burning side of the ATLANTIC EMPRESS
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.
After some time it was looking promising for the team as seen above until we encountered worlds first Boil-Over what is that the water under the oil in the tanks started boiling due to
the temperature of the oil
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Around 20:00 the teams encountered rumbling sounds whilst onboard the tanker and decided to leave the tanker
soonest for the night. around midnight the whole tanker
exploded which was a spectaculair sight with flames of a few hundred meters high as seen on the left , I took this photo from 1000 mtr distance and the flames irritated my
eyes as well
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The next morning at daylight we did see the result of
the disaster and the final hours of the
ATLANTIC EMPRESS were approaching we were still towing the tanker then it
was decided to slip our towing gears from the towing
drum And the 293.000 tons tanker sank later
that day to the bottom of the ocean
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After the ATLANTIC EMPRESS adventure I went to the Maritime Highschool at Vlissingen and and started my “koude grond” training and passed my master license in 1983 (Stuurman Grote Zeesleepvaart),
upon completion of my study i joined in Singapore the Salvage tug WITTE ZEE as a second mate and we operated mostly in the Far East
that trip
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After several months onboard the WITTE ZEE I made 2 more trips as 2nd Mate
before i got promoted to Ch.Officer at the salvage tug NOORDZEE, to behonest that
time the RODE ZEE and NOORDZEE were my favorite tugs, Single propeller , with 2 main engines and bowthruster,
good seakeeping ships, always fun onboard
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In 1984 to company gave me the opportunity
to make a trip as Captain, as the
youngest Capt of the fleet at 26 years i took
command of the coastal tug BANCKERT, for works in the Irish Sea
The BANCKERT (ex Maasbank) was equipped with 2 main engines via a gearbox coupled to 1 fixed pitch propeller, the Brevo gear box
was working very slow so maneuvring had to be done very slow as it took time upto 5-10 seconds before the clutch went in/out for the
engine, this was different maneuvring then the variable pitch onboard my previous tugs
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Slowly i rolled into large Maritime projects, in 1985 which were bad times for the Smit Company with a lot of people losing their
job selling tugs and nearly closing the Singapore
office, Smit managed to get a large contract named the GANAVEH project.
This project consisted out bottom pulling of 3 oil pipes ( 2 x 21 km and 1 x 18 km) which were emergency loading terminals for Iran the only
problem was the location at the border between Iran & Iraq which were in a war at that time after many meetings it was decided that a
volunteer team should do this job, I was appointed pull master and we started in Holland with the conversion from the SMIT BARGE 1 into a
pull barge with a pull force of 750 ton named TAKPULL 750
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The TAKPULL 750 was built for the Ganaveh project but as ususal with the Smit group materials were kept and not converted back but
used in other projects I became Captain at the barge and we started pulling pipes around the globe, several
times at the CDTM’s in Wick (Schotland)
During which project pipelines with a length upto 6-7 km complete constructed onshore in 1 pull into the sea were pulled, this pipes were afloat and were towed to the location by a AHT where the pipe was
installed at the location , and coupled using ROV’s
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We installed with the TAKPULL 750 also FSO/FPSO’s, as seen below the largest FSO in the world named SAFER (ex Esso Japan) offshore Yemen
This tanker was moored in a system of 6 inch chains
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With installation barge TAK 300 we installed a pipe line and SBM buoy in Bandar Taherie (Iran), as we had
all the materials for the project onboard and there was no port
available the TAK 300 was beached at low water and the materials
discharged at a pier and the barge was refloated the next high tide
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The SBM Bouy for intallation upon completion of the pipe pull we towed behind the TAK 300 from Sharjah to
Taherie and was parked offshore Taherie ready for the installation
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During the Gulf war many tankers took a hit from the Iraqi and Iranian
forces, during this actions many seaman lost there lifes 1 of the ships hit
was the left seen 15.000 tons MARE, the vessel was in balast when she was hit by multiple hits
including Exocets missile, she was towed by a tug in the direction of Jebel
Ali in the UAE.
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A Salvage team lead by myself was mobilised from Sharjah (UAE) onboard the SMIT TRINIDAD, the Capt of the tug which was towing the MARE had the idea to beach the vessel at the UAE coast before sinking as the beach was the place to beach for the rich people I
instructed the Capt to turn around and to head fullspeed outside the teritorial waters of the UAE but before we reached the transport it was allready too late, when we boarded the vessel the water was coming in so fast , not to be pumped out anymore that the vessel sank in 30 mtr
deep water the same day.
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In 1991 I left Smit in Rotterdam and went to Smit in Singapore, and due to
that Desert Storm just started and SMIT the SMIT NEW YORK and the SMIT MADURA had chartered to the US Navy, Capt Kees Pronk became the Capt at the NEW YORK and i
became captain at the SMIT MADURA , this because we both had a lot of
“war” experience from the past years in the Gulf, both tugs became part of the Task Force 150 and our job was stand by to assist the US Navy when necesary, we were the only 2 tugs operating in the minefields in the Northern Gulf region that time
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During this period in the Gulf we assisted 2 US Navy vessels first the Ticonderoga cruiser CG 59 PRINCETON which
contacted a mine under her sternand was disabled was towed to Bahrain by the
SMIT NEW YORK
helicopter carrier TRIPOLI was hit by a mine under her bow with the result a hole
with 10 mtr diameter, she stayed afloat and was towed into a safe port
One hour before the PRINCETON
contacted the mine also the
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afer DESERT STORM we demobilsed from the Gulf Region I sailed the MADURA back to Singapore enroute at the Indian
Ocean we connected up to a Chinese cargo ship loaded with Copra and
delivered this vessel safely in Singapore
Upon arrival in Singapore I was transferred to the intallation barge TAK 300, for the mobilisation and installation of the FSO CANMAR
NUSANTARA offshore Surabaja (Indonesië)
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The small chains were pulled into the turret by a 150 tons winch which was
installed at the forecastle of the tanker whilst 3 Smit-
Lloyd AHT’s kept the tanker in position
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The AHT SMIT HUNTER crew in Ras Isa (Yemen) in 1993
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After 9 good years in Singapore with a lot of freedom with a lot of projects and
many different ships i left Smit in Singapore as i could not go along with
the mentality of the management anymore and went back to SMIT in
Rotterdam,where i joined the project department as project manager
Top : as captain o/b the Smit-Lloyd 110 in Vietnam
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The first project I was assigned to was the transport of 6 tunnel elements of 52.000 ton each from the building site in Barendrecht to the
installation location Schiedam
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A interesting and secret project was in
November 2000 when a brandnew MERLIN
helicopter of the Royal Navy was ditched in sea
off Scotland , as this was a test helicopter the
crash was a very sensitive item we mobilised SMIT PIONEER from
Antwerp and recovered the remains of the
helicopter
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In the meantime Smit Maritime Projects was
contracted for the RION-ANTIRION bridge project in
Greece, during this project we had to
undock and install 4 large pylons with weight of 110.000 ton and 90
mtr diameter each pylon was towed out by us and after completion installed in 60 mtr deep
water
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The towout of the pylons and the construction until the necesarry height
before the installation
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And the installation offshore using several 100 ton BP AHT’s
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Whilst I was working in Greece i was called by the Smit management that i
had to come back to Holland as a joint venture of Mammoet-Smit was
established for the Salvage of the Russian Submarine
KURSK and i was assigned as operations
manager
The DSND MAYO departed from Scotland to the Barents Sea to start the preparations at the wreck of the KURSK
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We departed from the Norwegian port Kirkenes to the location of the KURSK
Where we were met by the Russian nuclear powered guided missile
cruiser PIOTR VELIKYI the proud of the Russian navy
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De complete KURSK team of 50 persons onboard the GIANT 4
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After connecting the grippers and wires and in view
of the bad weather forecast the management onboard decided to start lifting and under a tension of
9000 ton the KURSK started to move as can be
seen at the photo left
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Left : CH.Eng Leen Langstraat, middele Deckleader Ernst-Jan Boon en Captain GIANT 4 / Marine ops manager Piet Sinke
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For this project I was decorate by President Putin with the highest decoration given to a
foreigner “FRIEND OF THE RUSSIAN REPUBLIC which decoration was given to
me by the Russian Ambassador to The Netherlands as seen left
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As Monaco was iritated by a situation that the large
passengerliners all were going to Nice in France it was decided to
construct and install a port extension with a floating pier with a builtin 4 layer car park under water
The order was given to DRAGADOS in Spain to built the 352 mtr long pier, The pier was
constructed near Algeciras in a 400 mtr long and 60 mtr width building dock and transported to Monaco
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All winches ready & tugs connected and leaving the dock with the pier,
made me sweat as towmaster
10 hours later the pier was safely moored ready for ballasting
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Upon completion of the mooring the tankers could come alongside to deliver the in total 16.000 tons
freshwater ballast
In the meantime the insurance did not accept the LONDON for the towage as the Bollard Pull certificate was too old
according them, so test equipment was urgently mobilised from Holland by truck
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After the LONDON had proved that her horses still could reach the 180 ton BP
she was connected to the pier and departed for Monaco
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Because the trucks could not go into Monaco we transported all equipment with the TAKLIFT 4 overseas from Nice to Manaco which was a complex operation
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In the meantime the SMITWIJS LONDON arrived with the pier which
was handed over to 4 harbourtugs which were mobilised from Genoa
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The Smit project team, as friends we did many projects together all over the world succesfully !
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The TWIN STAR loaded with met 15.000 ton steel had a
collison just outside the port of Callao (Peru) and sank in 40 mtr deep water after Smit removed the oil from the wreck we were
contracted to remove the complete ship and cargo
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First we removed the 15.000 ton
steel from the cargo holds in a 3 months
24/7 job
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After discharging the steel we cutted the vessel in 2 parts and refloated
first the foreward section using compressed air, which section after stabilizing was succesfully beached
for scrapping
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After beaching the foreward section we refloated the stern section which was towed to
deep water offshore and sunken
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After compeletion of the paperworks 7 months were gone so time for me as Salvagemaster/ Project Manager to go back home, this
was for me the longest project to be from home
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Before closing my presentation the last
interresting project I would like to show you is the
grounding of the ZHEN HUA 10 at Rotterdam Maasvlakte
In gale force winds upto 60 knts (12 bft) the
ZHEN HUA 10 offshore Hoek van Holland was not able to hold position and grounded at 00:30 am
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After the volunteer crew of the Hoek van Holland based KNRM lifeboat
JEANINE PARQUI was scrambled around 1 AM (my neighbours that
time) I knew something was wrong, my phone rang a short while later with
the question how fast I could leave home, what was normal not more then 15 minutes which was standard as a
salvage master as my bag was always ready to go behind the front door after
getting dressed I went full speed to the pilot station and asked the crew to
bring me to the Maasvlakte in the meantime requesting a helicopter from
the Royal Dutch Navy The Westland Lynx Navy helicopter arrived 30 minutes later at the helipad of the pilot station , after discussing the situation with the pilots it was thumbs up and
we took off, despited the 55-60 knots winds heavy seas and rain the crew lowered me profesionally between the container cranes at the ZHEN HUA 10
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Upon arrival onboard I find out that the language was a problem as nearly nobody
spoke English the only thing they asked me my ID for
ISPS purpose and why I
came onboard in the night during bad weather by
helicopter
The captain spoke 3 words English and I had to explain to him that he was aground luckily the Ch.Off spoke some English, and
as the ship was heavily bumping at the seabed and avoiding bottom damage I instructed them to start ballasting full speed and went to bed for a rest
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The next morning at daylight the rest of the salvage team
including a naval architect came onboard by helicopter and we started making the refloating
plan and doing the preparations
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When the refloating plan was completed a meeting was setup with all parties involved
at Rotterdam Scheurhaven in which meeting I explained them all the plan for
the next morning highwater .
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After connecting all tugs including the JANUS which was mobilised full
speed from Bremerhaven the ZHEN HUA 10 was succesfully refloated without any damage around 3 am
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All the Salvages & projects from this presentation where succesfull as we as team we know eachother for many years and due to good
teamwork !
Thank you for your attention, please don’t forget :